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...Pets provide] unconditional friendship, and sometimes at Harvard there's not lot of that," said Matthew J. DeGreeff '89, a Grays West proctor who works in the Admission and Financial Aid Office and the owner of Bix, a Chesapeake Bay retriever...
...Bix to Buxtehude to Boulez, The little white dog on the Victor label Listens long and hard as he is able. It's all in a day's work, whatever plays...
Some of the greatest American music of the 20th century was recorded in the 1920s and '30s by the likes of King Oliver, Louis Armstrong, Jelly Roll Morton and Bix Beiderbecke. Trouble is, the 78 r.p.m.s they left behind give only a scratchy approximation of what their bands sounded like. Much of this classic material was reissued on LPs, but the technology used to reduce the surface noise often left the instruments sounding dead and flat. Now the advent of the CD has spawned another prodigious outpouring of reissues. And finally someone has had the time, affection and sheer wizardry...
JAZZ MASTERPIECES (Columbia). The latest crop of reissues in this remarkable four-year-old project features classic performances by such legends as Miles Davis, Roy Eldridge and Billie Holiday. But the most welcome new arrival to the series is trumpeter Bix Beiderbecke, whose digitally remastered 1927 sides capture the haunting tone and phrasing of the original "young man with a horn...
...your face for a mystery as deep as God, asking nothing and everything, the way that music operates. He hopes that you always love music, even the noisy boredom you clamp to your ears these days, while he harbors the prayer that in later years will follow Vivaldi and Bix Beiderbecke. If you learn to love jazz, you will have a perpetual source of joy at the ready. Jazz is serious joy, much like yourself...